“My opinion is that there needs to be a website that really is exclusively the province of the Inquirer, that people who want Inquirer content and Inquirer judgment have a place where they can go.”
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The prospect of better reaching readers — and advertisers — in a community encourage the Philadelphia Media Network to experiment with curation and open story budgets.
Beckett, Lois. "Badges? We might need some stinkin’ badges! Badgeville tries to bring a little gameplay to the news." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 14 Oct. 2010. Web. 25 Apr. 2024.
APA
Beckett, L. (2010, Oct. 14). Badges? We might need some stinkin’ badges! Badgeville tries to bring a little gameplay to the news. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2010/10/badges-we-might-need-some-stinkin-badges-badgeville-tries-to-bring-a-little-gameplay-to-the-news/
Chicago
Beckett, Lois. "Badges? We might need some stinkin’ badges! Badgeville tries to bring a little gameplay to the news." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified October 14, 2010. Accessed April 25, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2010/10/badges-we-might-need-some-stinkin-badges-badgeville-tries-to-bring-a-little-gameplay-to-the-news/.
Wikipedia
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